Good to see you're in good spirits RT. I was thinkin last night that I hadn't seen any of your posts for a while, thought you'd recently dropped off of the face of the earth. Either that or you knew where there was some really good fishing somewhere and you were living at the river.
As far as close to the breakers, just north of Oceanside is a little beach. We call it short beach, not sure of the real name. We were down there several years ago and there was crab pot bouy's about one swell length away from where the waves were breaking. Talk about crazy
It's amazing what people will do for that almighty dollar.